Hm, point - so if it's a jump pinned to a local frame of reference then maaaaybe you could eliminate most of the math in favor of some pre-built tables - which'd be clumsy as hell but that -might- knock it down into analog computer range, albeit the time-to-calculate might still require a bit of extra pep to make it work in a reasonable fashion.

>>But then I got to thinking about how to make it work and remembered we
>>have an overtech...well, PDA, I guess, and a time machine (The World)
>>so theoretically if we took Gryphon's omnitool, The World, and the
>>portable reflex furnace as mentioned, using The World to extend the
>>time available to make the calculations...well, maybe it'd work?
>>
>
>I'm not sure any sane being, or even most insane beings, would want to
>mess around with Rube Goldberg's Portable Fold Drive.
>

I mean....if it's a truly desperate situation with incredibly high stakes...? but yeah I'd prrrrobably want a few safety measures in place. Y'know, at least a space suit, locator beacon, and some form of comms.